2016 MOBO Season

MOBO Launches the 2016 MOBO Season at BFI Southbank, London.

MOBO hosts a special #MOBOVation Talk with Playwright and Creative Director, Kwame Kwei-Armah at BFI Southbank, London

Pulitzer Prize winner, Suzan-Lori Parks, returns to the Royal Court with Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), directed by Jo Bonney.

MOBO hosts a special #MOBOVation talk with London's Deputy Mayor, Rajesh Agrawal. To take place at The British Library.

Opening film of the London Film Festival. Starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. Directed by Amma Asante.

Kwame Kwei-Armah returns to the UK to direct Kemp Powers’ fictional account of a real night, taking us to the heart of a pivotal moment in history.

Directed by Lamin Jadama. A pulsating journey through the electronic urban musical underground of Africa.

Starring Barbara O, Alva Rogers, Cora Lee Day. Julie Dash’s majestic first feature about three generations of Gullah women.

Starring Tanya Fear, Hussina Raja and Aki Omoshaybi. The gentrification of London’s Brixton is examined in this stylistically ambitious debut.

Starring David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o. The powerful true life tale of one girl’s determination to escape from poverty in Uganda.

Mark Cousins and Neneh Cherry team up to direct this superb ‘is it a doc, or is it fiction' film.

Starring Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper. A taut, hardboiled crime thriller set in contemporary multicultural London. Directed by Pete Travis.

Starring Dudley O’Shaughnessy, Yrsa Daley-Ward and Wale Ojo. Leke. Follows the story of a mixed heritage man living in London.

Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Samuel L Jackson, Angela Bassett, Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes & John Cusack. Dazzling Hip-Hop musical set in Chicago

Starring Ramsay Noah, Rita Dominic. A tense political drama from Nigeria dealing with the ramifications for a group linked to an assassination in 1976

A special screening of the re-release of this seminal movie from John Singleton starring Ice Cube. Held at Glasgow Film Theatre.

The season comes to a close at the 2016 MOBO Awards which, this year, will take place on Friday November 4 at Glasgow's SSE Hydro.